![]() ![]() I've viewed most of the tutorials and for an application that is in Public Beta ahead of its first launch, they are good to orient you to some of those topics but there needs to be more to really help the user master the tool. Last is how the pieces of the book are managed. ![]() Finally, I need to understand how the automatically generated content (TOCs and Indexes) are managed. When approaching a new DTP tool, the first thing I want to understand is how the tool facilitates the layout of the page and the flow of the text across those pages: How do the Master pages work to control that flow? Once I understand the text flow, then I start to go through how the paragraph and character catalogs are set up and how they interact with one another. As with any tool, becoming proficient takes a lot of practice, patience, and study. I see a lot of potential in the new Affinity Designer. ![]() ![]() No, I don't work for Serif/Affinity or have any connection to them, it's just that I am grateful they have allowed free access to their beta program and thereby given me the opportunity to share in its early development.Īs a technical writer with over 30 years experience, I spent much of that time using FrameMaker to write technical end user documentation. It is early days yet - I believe (I hope) better things are yet to come. It will take a bit of work yet to iron out any bugs and, of course, the real proof of Affinity's program will be in how much notice is taken of what we, the future users, say.Īll in all, I don't think you can realistically compare AP in Beta to those (much) older, wiser packages at this early stage. Not to mention Quark! Well I never did like Quark overmuch and the need for expensive third party software to get it to even shake hands with anything non-Quark was a real pain.Īlready I can see some real promise in what Affinity have created. I would like to support what jmwellborn says about being patient and give AP a fair chance.Īs someone who has used Adobe software since it first appeared, and Pagemaker before that, I can remember how difficult those programs were for early adopters. ![]()
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